Start with Talend

Preamble

There is two versions of Talend. For Saagie you can download the free version: Talend Open Studio.

Talend Open Studio could be used on Linux, windows and Mac OS.

Download & launch

Download link : https://fr.talend.com/download/talend-open-studio

Extract the archive TOS_BD-<version number>.zip

Launch Talend :

• On Windows 64 bits : TOS_BD-win-x86_64.exe
• On Windows 32 bits : TOS_BD-win32-x86.exe
• On Linux : TOS_BD-linux-gtk-x86.sh

First launch

Workspace

Talend is based on Eclipse, so all developments are made in a Workspace. You could have many workspaces. Ideally you could have one workspace by project.

Give a name of your project and click on Finish :

External librairies

For licencing reasons Talend don't include external librairies. You must accept licencing and download it separately  from Talend.

Download external libraries. Configure the proxy before if necessary :

Accept individually the licencing or click on Accept All :

On the bottom right you could see the downloading of librairies.

Java configuration

Before create a job, be sure you have a Java JDK 7 or 8 installed and configured on your computer. To know if you have a JDK with JRE, open a terminal and type these commands (versions of Java could be different) :

To be sure Talend is using Java, go to settings menu:

And insert the values if it is not filled :

 

First job

In Talend each data processing are made with jobs. In each job you have components and you link components with arrows symbolizing the data flow.

Create a job. Right click on Job design and click on Create a job :

Give a name of your job and click on Finish :

After clicking on Finish you should have this screen :

To build your job you have to drag & drop components from the right panel to the center. To link components right on component, select the link you want and click on the next component. An arrow should link the two components.